[ale] Lazy guy wants to burn large backup into DL DVD

[John Mills]

Michael -

Thanks very much, and thanks also to Mike and Greg for their help.

I'll give the script a shot (in the spirit of laziness, of course).

Regards.

  - Mills

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:15 -0500, John Mills wrote:

>> I have a directory branch of about 6 GBy miscellaneous gold and cruft 
>> and I would like to back it up.

> I have a script for burning a directory tree to media; I've attached it.
> It uses xorriso by default, which is what I use for DVD, DVD-DL, and BD
> media, though it can also use wodim by passing a switch.  It's simple,
> quick and dirty because I do this all the time.

> It's called "bd" for "burn directory".  I don't ensure that it will work
> for anyone but myself, it's not something I've released, but if you make
> any changes to it, I'd sure not mind having them sent back as a patch.